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- Publication date
- 2025-09-15
- Usage
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Topics
- librivox, audiobooks, pirates, river, mississippi, ohio, daniel boone, westward expansion, keelboat
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 952.6M
LibriVox recording of Down the Big River by Stephen W. Meader.
Read in English by Warren Bergmann.
For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.
Read in English by Warren Bergmann.
In 1805, two boys encounter vicious river pirates on their way to help settle the American Midwest.
I
am very pleased to offer another of Stephen W. Meader's
beautifully-written historical adventures. A prominent theme of this
novel is "Manifest Destiny," a driving force in 19th-century American
politics and government. The credo of Manifest Destiny held that white
Americans were divinely foreordained to push westward and settle the
continent. This book presents an accurate portrayal of (and celebrates)
some of the people caught up in that undertaking. But it is important to
acknowledge that Manifest Destiny was an imperialist and racist idea
that directly resulted in the displacement and death of thousands of
indigenous North Americans, the theft of their homeland, and eventually
the forced removal of their children to boarding schools that worked to
strip them of their language and culture.
- Summary by Warren Bergmann
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- Call number
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- downthebigriver_2509_librivox
- Run time
- 06:03:03
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